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title: This is merely a matter of evidence, and of evidence there is singul… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This is merely a matter of evidence, and of evidence there is singularly little, though it is indeed curious that one of Campbell's best equipped informants should turn out to be a gypsy. Who acts: This, little, tale, one. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXI. the King of 
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXI. the King of England, sentence 10

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This is merely a matter of evidence, and of evidence there is singularly little, though it is indeed curious that one of Campbell's best equipped informants should turn out to be a gypsy.

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**Who acts:** This, little, tale, one · **What happens:** be, equip, turn out · **To what, where:** matter, gypsy

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXI. the King of England. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, little, tale, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:62:10
# text = This is merely a matter of evidence, and of evidence there is singularly little, though it is indeed curious that one of Campbell's best equipped informants should turn out to be a gypsy.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	singularly	singularly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
28	equipped	equip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	informants	informant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a matter |  |  |  | of evidence; merely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | little |  |  | there |  | of evidence | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | tale |  |  |  |  | curious, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **equip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **turn out** | should | one of Campbell's best equipped informants |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | one of Campbell's best equipped informants *not said here* | a gypsy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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